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Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) mining activities: photographic prints, 1924 to 1935

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Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
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Collection Number: MS-01153
Collection Name: Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
Box/Folder: Box 01

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Published surveys, reports, and maps related to mining in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1920 to 1939

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Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
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Collection Number: MS-01153
Collection Name: Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
Box/Folder: Box 02

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African photo safari - ziplining across Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe: DVD, 2014 April 06

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Dennis McBride Personal Papers
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Collection Number: MS-01099
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Personal Papers
Box/Folder: Box 40 (Restrictions apply)

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Claude slides, photographs, negatives: Nevada research, California research, Idaho research, Zimbabwe trip, England research, England trip, holiday slides, 1960 to 1999

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Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00906
Collection Name: Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 327 (Restrictions apply), Box 328 (Restrictions apply), Box 329 (Restrictions apply), Box 330 (Restrictions apply), Box 331 (Restrictions apply)

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Zimbabwe

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Claude Warren in front of a boulder: photograph

Date

1960 to 1999

Description

Slide from the Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers (MS-00906) -- Elizabeth von Till Warren Papers -- Personal papers -- Claude slides, photographs, negatives: Nevada research, California research, Idaho research, Zimbabwe trip, England research, England trip, holiday slides file.

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Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining

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MS-01153

Abstract

The Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining (approximately 1900-1955) document Brooks' time working in the mining and railroad industries in central and southern Nevada, as well as in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Brooks worked as a mining engineer and executive in many Nevada mining districts, including Goldfield, Tonopah, Bullfrog, Rawhide, Chloride, Beatty, Wonder, and Searchlight. The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, ledgers and mining certificates, correspondence, and publications that all relate to mining. Notable figures mentioned in material throughout the collection include George Nixon, George Wingfield, William MacMaster, and James Butler.

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Khan, Zia U., 1969-

Born in India and raised in Zambia, Africa, Zia U. Khan is a cardiologist, philanthropist, and AAPI advocate. Khan's father was one of three sons who were left fatherless at an early age when their father died and who were raised by their widowed mother. As a young boy Khan's father did odd jobs to help support the family and, with no birth certificate, made up a birthdate so he could go to school.

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Zia U. Khan oral history interview

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OH-03768

Abstract

Oral history interview with Zia U. Khan conducted by Vanessa Concepcion, Cecilia Winchell, and Stefani Evans on May 21, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.

Zia talks about his childhood growing up in Zambia, Africa and reflects on the personal histories of his family. Zia shares how he returned to his birth country of India to attend medical school before immigrating to the United States to complete his cardiology residency at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Zia also discusses his move to Las Vegas where he opened his own cardiology practice, Desert Cardiovascular Consultants. He shares stories of his work as well as his philanthropic efforts with the Imagine Foundation and other humanitarian causes.

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Transcript of interview with Jillian Hrushowy by Joyce Marshall, September 26, 1995

Date

1995-09-26

Description

Jillian Hrushowy arrived in Las Vegas in 1959 as part of a company hired to appear at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel in a production called La Nouvelle Eve. She has remained here (other than three short-term contracts in Reno, Nevada) until present day. She is now the production manager for Legends in Concert at the Imperial Palace Hotel. She was an only child, born in Rhodesia to English parents and raised in a home with servants and tutors. Her mother exposed her to the arts at an early age. Jillian took dancing lessons from the age of three years until she began dancing professionally. When she was fifteen years old, both parents agreed it was time for her to leave Rhodesia and finish her education in England. Living alone was difficult and lonely, but it afforded her a wealth of opportunities otherwise unavailable. She worked as a dancer in small, local productions while still in high school. When only eighteen, she got a job dancing in La Nouvelle Eve in Paris which eventually came to Las Vegas. This interview focuses on the years from Jillian’s arrival in 1959 until she retired from dancing in 1979. It follows her transitions from dancer, to principal dancer to production manager. [The first twenty minutes of the tape is warped and the text is garbled. The transcriber has lightly edited the transcript.]

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